HCM City-based banks have set themselves ambitious targets for 2016, including credit growth of 16-18 per cent.They city also expect to increase deposits by 17-19 per cent and decrease bad debts to below 3 per cent.

Last week, Viet Nam News asked readers to share how they would seek a job if they did not have any degree. The question was raised after a 23-year-old-man, who only studied until sixth grade, knelt down on the ground for hours in Ha Noi's Nguyen Chi Thanh street asking for a job early this month.

An annual report by Google has shown that nine out of Vietnamese top 10 searches in 2015 were related to movies, music and celebrities. The song "Vo nguoi ta" (Wife of Another Man), which describes the broken heart of a man after finding out his beloved is getting married to another, was the top trending search in the country, even though it only surfaced on the internet in late October, according to the "Year in Search 2015" report.